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So I have a new Kobo since last year, but I also have a fairly new Kindle Paperwhite and then then we have a few more Kindles in the family. So here's what I did which allows me to read all books across all devices with progress sync and the ability to push books down to a device from Calibre.

1. Jailbreak all Kindles using Winterbreak (works on latest firmware and will then disable future automatic updates from Amazon).
2. Download all purchased books from Amazon, import into Calibre which will do its DRM thing on import.
3. Install KOReader across all devices, enable progress sync and Calibre integration. Only works on jailbroken kindle devices but will install in seconds using a script on Kobo.

I can pick up my Kobo in my office, read a few pages, then before going to bed, pick up my Kindle on my bedside table and continue the same book where I left off.

What that means is that multiple systems inside Bybit had been hacked in a way that allowed the attackers to manipulate the Safe wallet UI on the devices of each person required to approve the transfer. That revelation, in turn, has touched off something of a eureka moment for many in the industry.

“The Bybit hack has shattered long-held assumptions about crypto security,” Dikla Barda, Roman Ziakin, and Oded Vanunu, researchers at security firm Check Point, wrote Sunday. “No matter how strong your smart contract logic or multisig protections are, the human element remains the weakest link. This attack proves that UI manipulation and social engineering can bypass even the most secure wallets.”

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has given all intelligence agencies until Friday to identify the employees participating in pornographic chats while on duty, revoke their security clearances, and terminate their employment. In a memo released Tuesday evening, Gabbard responded decisively to revelations that numerous employees who were members of a National Security Agency chat system used it to discuss fetishes, kink, and sex as part of the agency's DEI program. //

FL Free
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People that mentally ill, that narcissistic, that incredibly foolish need to be as far away from national security as poosible.

Hmmmm….why don’t we gossip about, attack, and slander the likely incoming DNI on an official NSA communications platform where it will be archived? //

ConservativeInMinnesota
8 minutes ago
The hubris to put their depravities in writing on employer owned equipment speaks volumes about the corruption of the deep state. Most Americans would never dare to do something like that as they know they’d get fired on the spot.

Laocoön of Troy ConservativeInMinnesota
3 minutes ago
Intelink is NOT just employer equipment. It's a secure Intel Community comm node. They're supposed to arrest people for misuse of these assets.

Maximus Decimus Cassius ConservativeInMinnesota
4 minutes ago
Which speaks volumes about the culture, perversion and laxity among federal government employees.

And as each one of these details emerges it's only drawing more attention to the network, to the documentary, and to the problems behind BBC’s stance on the war.

With all of these controversies emerging, Israel is getting involved and has called for action. All of these developments have the network completely off balance now and internal reviews are taking place. This becomes a very interesting aspect because the BBC has a history of proclaiming how much editorial rigor they possess at the network. Questions are emerging now on whether or not this documentary passed through the proper editorial channels and legal assessments seen in the past at the BBC. //

What is fairly apparent is that this is a fiasco that has been generated from the network’s longstanding position of backing for Palestine and, by extension, Hamas. The BBC has held the approach towards this conflict of not labeling Hamas as a terrorist outfit, nor willing to call its violent actions acts of terrorism. The BBC has shown to be more than willing to run with claims and outright propaganda from Hamas with little journalistic skepticism.

When the group turned over the bodies of some of the murdered hostages, the BBC was sure to include the statement from Hamas that they did everything in their power to save their lives. It has been shown the family had been murdered by their captors. Over the weekend one of BBC’s prominent voices commented (in a now-deleted post) that Hamas celebrating over the bodies of hostages and Israeli emotional reactions to getting its people back were equally nauseating displays.

Loki
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I learned these from a self-defense legal protection group (Right to Bear):

• Call 911, do not admit to anything, when the operator tells you to hold the line, hang up and do not answer: you are being recorded.
• Immediately call your lawyer
• Do not answer any questions without a lawyer present

Example: I am a victim of a home invasion, the intruder has been subdued - do NOT say anything about your actions.

The money quote is: You have a right to remain silent, but very few are capable of doing so.

Michael Shellenberger

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FBI whistleblower @GOBactual confirmed to me that a source inside FBI said FBI employees were destroying evidence on servers, and that he informed @Kash_Patel

I hope he & @AGPamBondi @JohnRatcliffe @elonmusk @realannapaulina are preventing this.

We urgently need disclosure!
Anna Paulina Luna
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There is a massive war happening in the intelligence agencies right now. The corruption being exposed right now is actual treason…
2:29 AM · Feb 25, 2025. //

Greg Price
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FBI Whistleblower Garret O'Boyle, whose family had to beg for clothes after exposing corruption at the FBI: "The FBI will crush you. This government will crush you and your family if you try to expose the truth about things they are doing that are wrong."

4:53 PM · May 18, 2023. //

It's like ferreting out a nest of snakes, and what a sad thought it is to think that there are such questions in our intel agencies. //

RatFink Just a tax payer
8 hours ago
I'm sure every branch of the government has these people and they are all destroying what will convict them of what the democrats say doesn't exist.

A New Harvard-Harris poll taken between February 19-20 of 2,443 registered voters shows that a whopping 75 percent of Democrats say they do not believe that Joe Biden and his hapless administration threw the doors of the United States wide open for millions of illegal immigrants to pour into the nation deliberately. The poll asked this question: "Do you think Democrats deliberately kept the southern border open to bring millions of immigrants into the country illegally, or was that not their deliberate policy?" Of those polled, 80 percent of Republicans believe the opposite, that Biden administration immigration policies were very deliberate.

According to the whistleblower, two female FBI undercover employees infiltrated Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign at high levels and were directed to act as “honeypots” while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff. //

This was not part of Crossfire Hurricane, this was reportedly a different operation.

The whistleblower agent “personally knew” that Mr. Comey ordered an FBI investigation into Mr. Trump and that Mr. Comey “personally directed it,” according to the disclosure. //

anon-adwq
21 minutes ago
This operation agains Trump was launched in 2015. The fact that all Biden's pardons of his stooges and his family begin in 2014 makes sense now.

The Dark Lord anon-adwq
15 minutes ago
Yes. John Brennan also started his overseas operations against Page, Papadopolous, Clovis, and Caputo also began in late 2015 or early 2016. One of those also allegedly involved a honeypot, either with Joseph Mifsud or Stefan Halper.

These people took oaths. They have — or had — security clearances, with the extensive background checks that go with those. I know — I've undergone a background check for a top-secret clearance myself. And, depending on which foreign government these disgruntled ex-employees might choose to go to, this act would be, arguably, treason.

Treason, I should note, is specifically called out in the Constitution. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: //

If this were to happen, it would be troubling indeed; an indication that the rot in the federal government is far worse, runs far deeper, and is far more pervasive than we thought. The very idea that someone placed in a position of great trust, with insights into matters of national security, with access to highly classified materials, wou

A new poll by Harvard CAPS-Harris reveals the majority of the country backs President Donald J. Trump and his actions to bring much-needed reforms that are making America great again.

81% support deporting criminal illegal immigrants.
76% support a “full-scale effort to find and eliminate fraud and waste in government.”
76% support closing the border with additional security and policies.
69% support keeping men out of women’s sports.
68% support government declaring there are only two genders.
65% support ending race-based hiring in government.
63% support “freezing and re-evaluating all foreign aid expenditures and the department that handled them.”
61% support reciprocal tariffs.
60% support direct U.S. negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
59% support cutting government spending already approved by Congress.
57% support ending the ban on new offshore drilling. //

olinka2022
4 hours ago
"Do you think Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) departments are needed in government or should they be eliminated to reduce waste?

this assumes that people actually understand what DEI is. I don't think that half of them understands their full meaning and implications.

Random Commenter olinka2022
3 hours ago
Which is good feedback for the Trump admin. Their message isn't understood. They need to keep educating people about what DEI actually does, and the problems it has caused.

I'd guess that at least a quarter of the people who currently think we need DEI would change their minds if they understood the reality of it.

Charlie Kirk

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For the first time in my lifetime we have an administration that is dead serious about rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in government so the next generation doesn’t live as debt slaves.

Every expense must be justified—with our tax dollars you are guilty until proven innocent.

5:11 PM · Feb 24, 2025. //

The thing to realize about the government is that it's not a citizen of the United States, and thus isn't subject to the same rights as we are. In fact, the government doesn't technically have any rights, it has allowances as agreed upon by the people of the United States of America. It has certain powers, to be sure, but these powers can be increased, decreased, or eliminated as the people see fit.

As you can see, this is exactly what's happening with DOGE. The people demanded a reduction in government power and a removal of waste, and that's exactly what's happening. Even as the Democrats and leftists cry foul, the government is losing its power.

There is a simple truth buried here.

If a government is unable or unwilling to reveal how it's using the money it takes from us with the threat of punishment for not giving up, then it's not our government. //

. In fact, government is often times a necessary evil, born out of a need to inhibit the worst impulses of man, whether those impulses be foreign or domestic. It is a system necessary for civilization to happen in an imperfect world, but it's the fact that we have an imperfect world that the system we create to curb is itself imperfect, and thus needs to be monitored, audited, and sometimes destroyed, at least in part so as not to have to be destroyed in its totality.

the Trump administration totally expects they are going to lose in court a lot. Do you know what it costs to do an executive order? A piece of paper and a Sharpie. That’s it. And they can go right back to the drawing board. One of these courts said, hey, the language was too vague. You know what that tells them? Just go draft another one. It's not like legislation where you need a bunch of people to agree on something.

[...]

They’re going to fight at every single turn. And that means appealing absolutely everything with the knowledge that they’re going to lose some of them because it costs them nothing. Executive Orders are the easiest thing to issue.

I do not see this as Trump losing over and over and over again. I think the more important bigger story is that they’re not going to stop and they’re going to keep fighting it every time, and they are going to win some of these. //

Political-Paige
4 hours ago
SCOTUS could end all this tomorrow with a sweeping (and utterly unassailable) order that these District Courts lack the power to issue nationwide injunctions against the Executive.
But the Roberts Court is so timid that it's allowing unprecedented chaos to reign across the country as activist inferior court judges strut their unearned power games.
It's appalling.

In Texas, a doctor and whistleblower at the Texas Children’s Hospital was persecuted by the Biden administration for going public with the reality of these treatments. Award-winning journalist Catherine Herridge interviewed Dr. Eithan Haim and his wife Andrea and released the full interview Monday on X. It is truly must-see TV. Dr. Haim was, of course, persecuted by the Biden Justice Department for blowing the whistle on this unethical and unnecessary care for minors. //

Not only does this case represent an unforgivable instance of lawfare by a presidential administration against a medical practitioner who has gone public with his concerns over what is arguably an unethical practice, but it also shows the depth to which the adherents to gender ideology will go to keep treating kids.

Some key segments follow. The title of the interview is telling as well: "Government Malpractice - vindicated Texas surgeon speaks out after exposing Biden era gender affirming treatments for minors."

While the mainstream press screams bloody murder over the Trump administration's trimming back of the bureaucratic state, shocking new details have emerged about how government resources were being misused. A new report from City Journal has obtained chat logs showing NSA representatives, including from the CIA and FBI, used the NSA's government interlink program to discuss various transgender fetishes and aspects of "transitioning."

The report shows topics such as "genital castration, artificial vaginas, piss fetishes, sex polycules, and gangbangs" were posted using the government system. This is what your tax dollars were going to. //

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Government officials have lived in an alternate universe where all their most disgusting, corrupt desires are not only met but encouraged. All while getting paid hefty salaries and benefits packages. And to do what? No one really knows, but they clearly had quite a bit of free time on their hands.

These agencies have to be gutted to the studs, and that's why the work of DOGE and the Trump-appointed heads is so important. Leaving the masses in place and changing a few regulations won't fix this, and the more insane revelations we get, the more of a mandate the administration has. The U.S. government has been inundated by lazy, wasteful, degenerates for decades, and it's about time the hammer dropped. Taxpayer money should not be used to fund a funhouse for mentally ill people.

It has become commonplace in Liberia for people to arbitrarily create streets, towns, and places with willy-nilly names. Streets without logical naming conventions hinder efficient navigation and hamper effective police and fire responders in critical situations.

To ensure meaningful, consistent, and practical street names, cities nationwide must adopt naming policies that include public consultation, historical relevance, community engagement, and clear guidelines. Such measures will maintain order.

Astronomers will find a lot more of these
City-killer asteroids the size of 2024 YR4 are fairly common in the inner Solar System. This asteroid was likely somewhere between 40 and 100 meters across, which is large enough to cause regional destruction on the planet, but small enough to be difficult to find with most telescopes. However, we should expect to find more of them in the coming years.

"An object the size of YR4 passes harmlessly through the Earth-Moon neighborhood as frequently as a few times per year," Richard Binzel, one of the world's leading asteroid experts and a professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told Ars. "The YR4 episode is just the beginning for astronomers gaining the capability to see these objects before they come calling through our neck of the woods.". //

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, is nearing completion in Chile. Among its primary scientific objectives is finding small asteroids near Earth, and it is likely to find many. A little more than two years from now, the NEO Surveyor is scheduled to launch to a Sun-Earth Lagrange point. This NASA-backed instrument will survey the Solar System for threats to Earth. Finally, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope due to launch in 2027 will not look directly for asteroids, but also is likely to find threats to Earth.

With all of these tools coming online, astronomers believe we are likely to find 10 or even 100 times more objects like 2024 YR4. //

In fact, the message people should take from this whole experience is that the Solar System is full of small rocks whizzing all around. And when it comes to asteroids and comets, knowledge is power.

The findings from UC Riverside and Caltech were derived by using a widely used modeling tool from the US Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA model translates the estimated air quality and human health impacts into a monetary value.

Hoi Polloi Boy
6 hours ago
Lib: It's been called the Gulf of Mexico for centuries!!

Dude: Cool bro! Now do genders.

EDMUND
6 hours ago
They really wanna die on this hill?

GeoMcGeo
5 hours ago
Democrats have used the hammer of controlling local schools through access to federal funding for decades.

frylock234
6 hours ago
No, I believe the Feds can withhold funding over refusal to follow Federal policy. They've done it before to enforce speed limits I think it was? Nice highway funding ... too bad you don't want to conform to our thoughts on proper speed (or maybe it was blood alcohol limits). The state could do as they wished, just without those federal highway dollars.

Stoutcat
7 hours ago
”…the irony of it all is that Donald Trump never served a day the freaking coward…”

Did Biden? Did Obama? Did Clinton?

NavyVet Stoutcat
6 hours ago
President Trump was shot by a democrat, in the democrat war on America.
That makes President Trump a combat veteran in my book.

Fight! Fight! Fight!

TexasVeteran Stoutcat
7 hours ago
At least he attended a the New York Military Academy and learned to salute properly! That puts him well ahead of the three presidents mentioned above!😁

James Jinnette @james_jinnette1
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Are you ready to have your mind blown?

USAID has given a total of… wait for it…

$164,749,304.99 to terrorist linked organizations.

ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE MILLION

Thank goodness @DOGE came along and discovered all of this insanity.
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